wine users - Sep 2010 - Make Office 2007 in Ubuntu + Wine, available to all users

Hi,

Using ubuntu + wine, I can install and use Office 2007 easily. However, if the
computers have 5 user accounts, I have to install Office 2007 using wine on one
by one account. Is that possible to install office 2007 once and available to
all users?

Thanks,

Daniel

adinugro wrote:
> 
> Using ubuntu + wine, I can install and use Office 2007 easily. However, if
the computers have 5 user accounts, I have to install Office 2007 using wine on
one by one account. Is that possible to install office 2007 once and available
to all users?
> 
No. http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-f54d469b937b82e6d757a851dfcece0167919859

Thank you for your prompt replies.

My conclusion, copying prefix is one of the solution, but it needs adjustment of
the links.

Licence is another issue. I believe in Windows based system, Office can only be
installed in one system but not limited to one user as long as they are created
in this system? Is that save to say that we can use one licence in linux-based
(wine) system with multiple users?

Actually, I am still not quite sure with the prefixes. If Install office 2007,
is that having different folder in my user .wine folder? If yes, can I just copy
this to other user? Does the registry affected?

Regards,

Daniel

adinugro wrote:
> Actually, I am still not quite sure with the prefixes. If Install office
2007, is that having different folder in my user .wine folder? If yes, can I
just copy this to other user? Does the registry affected?
> 
Office makes many registry entries, and installs files to more places than just
the program directory. Copying only the program directory will not work.

Ok, so copying prefixes seems impracticable, if I copied then the links need
adjustments ;(
Is that possible to use the other user account prefixes to run office? For
example, I have two users, testA and testB. I installed office 2007 using wine
in testA account. Can I run office 2007 from testB account with using prefixes
from test A?


Code:
testB at localhost% WINEPREFIX=/home/testA/.wine wine word.exe



Thanks for the helps

adinugro wrote:
> Can I run office 2007 from testB account with using prefixes from test A?
No, this is not allowed.

On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 11:41, adinugro <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> Ok, so copying prefixes seems impracticable, if I copied then the links
need adjustments ;(
> Is that possible to use the other user account prefixes to run office? For
example, I have two users, testA and testB. I installed office 2007 using wine
in testA account. Can I run office 2007 from testB account with using prefixes
from test A?
>
>
> Code:
> testB at localhost% WINEPREFIX=/home/testA/.wine wine word.exe
>
This might though:
cp -r /home/testA/.wine ~/.wine-office
chown -r testB:testB ~/.wine-office
export WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-office
cd "$WINEPREFIX/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office12"
wine winword

It might be possible to create some links as will for say, the
Microsft Office directory to save some space. (This should only be
done for things in program files and they should be changed to
read-only (which should be fine) to prevent patches etc. from making
the files go out of sync with the registry entries.

Gert

> chown -r testB:testB ~/.wine-office
That should be -R